I would use a known source with a known signal, then a SPL meter at a measured distance. That should be harmless. Within a 3dB range your listening sessions should be perfectly equivalent.
Leo Moracchioli – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
St. Vincent – Pay Your Way in Pain
Bowie via Beck
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin – Courting is a Pleasure
If there is anything you need let me know, though I’m guessing shipping might make it cheaper to find a local source. Plus there is always the chance it could warp a little in the change in environments. Willing to help if I can though.
Some pics of the motor housing restoration / upgrade, as everything got back from the polisher today (excuse the fingerprints).
My previous DIY motor housings have just had a top plate with the motor attached. This one actually clamps the motor against a piece of sorbothane sheeting which resulted in a lot less noise at the platter.
Now I need to work on the motor controller
Very hard to get my head about the fact that she's gone, so young. Fuck cancer
It saw my wife's mother off nearly a decade younger, aged 42, when Carole was only 18.
Lou Ottens, Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Has Died
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-ottens-inventor-audio-cassette-tape-dead-obit-1139657/
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975598869/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-has-died
RIP Bunny Wailer....last of the original band.... 😪
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bunny-wailer-died-wailers-original-member-dead-age-73-cause-of-death-stroke-complications/